SheRecovery Podcast with Crystal Renaud Day

After almost one year away, we're back! In the Season 4 opener of the SheRecovery Podcast, you’ll hear from host Crystal Renaud Day as she answers the questions you have submitted via social media in the last few weeks. From your submissions, Crystal has selected a variety of questions to answer on a variety of topics including accountability do's and don'ts, masturbation, recovery while dating, recovery in marriage, relapse, shame, and more.
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Crystal Renaud Day is a pastoral counselor, certified coach, author, podcast host, and speaker with over 15 years of experience in addiction recovery. She holds a Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University and numerous certifications in counseling and coaching specialties. Crystal owns and operates Living on Purpose Coaching & Pastoral Counseling and is the founding director of SheRecovery.com, an online ministry helping women overcome porn and sexual addiction. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, ABC News, CNN, Christianity Today, The 700 Club, and more. Her books include Dirty Girls Come Clean, 90 Days to Wholeness, and Dating Done Right. Crystal resides in the Kansas City area with her husband Tim.

Resources Referenced in this Episode:

• Dating Done Right by Crystal Renaud Day
• 90 Days to Wholeness by Crystal Renaud Day on YouVersion or Amazon
• Get the recordings from 2022 SHE Virtual Recovery Summit
• Check out the Accountability Discussion Guide on SheRecovery
• Download Help for Couples Worksheet on SheRecovery
• Register for Singles Night In with Crystal Renaud Day
• Enroll in Women's Group Recovery Intensive with Crystal Renaud Day
• Enroll in SheRecovery Membership (meetings available daily)
• Support SheRecovery on PayPal, Venmo, or Buy Us a Coffee.
• Protected Hearts Male Partner Recovery (secular)

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In this out-of-season episode of the SheRecovery Podcast, host Crystal Renaud Day shares about an exciting virtual event coming NEXT WEEK and also discusses a little bit about the history of pornography, the need for safe spaces to heal, and the hope for real recovery for women.
Also, stay tuned for the return of the SheRecovery Podcast in early 2023.

Resources Referenced:

• Register for FREE: SHE Virtual Recovery Summit - October 17-21, 2022

Thank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast - a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode as well as to access our Patreon page. You can show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com by becoming a patron. Patrons receive exclusive content, recovery tools, and even SheRecovery merch that is not found anywhere else. Thank you for your support and we hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast.

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Thank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast, a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode including links to all of the resources mentioned in it and submit listener feedback. You can also show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com at buymeacoffee.com/sherecovery. Thank you for your support and I hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast.
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In S3E5 of the SheRecovery Podcast, you'll hear from Crystal Renaud Day along with her mom and special guest Gina Renaud as they walk through 90 Days to WholenessTM recovery devotional in our Whole New Year series. In this week's episode, Crystal and Gina continue their discussion on the second step in the devotional confession by introducing a form of confession you may not be familiar with: Affirmation.

Affirmation is defined as:

1. the action or process of affirming something or being affirmed. It’s a declaration, statement or assurance that something is true.
2. emotional support or encouragement.

Affirmations should be positive and true, but many of us have only heard negative things declared about us from parents, boyfriends, classmates, etc. like, “you are ugly,” “you will never amount to anything,” or “you’re not good enough.” A number of us have made own own negative statements about ourselves when we mess up or make a mistake.

After a while we start to believe them, and our soul becomes damaged. Many women have unknowingly turned to pornography, masturbation and other sexual behaviors as a means of soothing or covering up their hurts.

Scripture says there is life and death in the power of words. Listen as Crystal and Gina share steps to break the hold of negative words and beliefs and how to heal the damage they have caused.

Resources Referenced:

• 90 Days to WholenessTM coloring devotional workbook on Amazon
• 90 Days to WholenessTM for FREE on YouVersion
• Enroll in SheRecovery Virtual Meetings
• LifeRecovery Bible
• SheRecovery Facebook Group
• Schedule Free Consultation (Counseling)

Thank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast - a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode as well as to access our Patreon page. You can show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com by becoming a patron. Patrons receive exclusive content, recovery tools, and even SheRecovery merch that is not found anywhere else. Thank you for your support and we hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast.

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Thank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast, a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode including links to all of the resources mentioned in it and submit listener feedback. You can also show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com at buymeacoffee.com/sherecovery. Thank you for your support and I hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast.
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In S3E4 of the SheRecovery Podcast, you'll hear from Crystal Renaud Day along with her mom and special guest Gina Renaud as they walk through 90 Days to WholenessTM recovery devotional in our Whole New Year series. In this week’s episode, Crystal and Gina begin their discussion on the second recovery step outlined in the devotional: Confession.

The biblical definition of confession is the acknowledging or confessing of sins before God.

The first step in confession is realizing what sin is, how you may have inadvertently got there, and how to get right with God. One of the ways to recognize sin is that as you continue doing wrong things, they escalate to uncontrollable urges or impulses and unhealthy practices. What we do is planting seeds and nurturing them by continuing these behaviors. You don’t realize what’s been planted in your soul until you start producing fruit. By now you are seeing the negative results, feeling dirty, sad, shameful, secretive maybe even experiencing sickness in your mind and body.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

So, now comes the Good News about Confession. Acknowledging and confessing our sins (our wrong doings) to God opens the door to the process of cleansing. A release from the baggage weighing you down.

• Proverbs 28:13

Every human whether committing sexual sins or not needs to confess their sins. Everyone accepting God will start a sanctification process, a new way of life. Yours may look different initially because of the nature of your sins, but take heart. Once you confess your personal sins to God and ask forgiveness for them, you are restored to perfect fellowship and communion with Him.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3
• 1 John 1:9

Be specific in your confession, but don’t beat yourself up. Acknowledge what you’ve done. God knows and He is ready to receive you.

Confess to others (like your SheRecovery meeting). Hearing yourself own up to moral failure to other safe people is a good foundation to keep you from making excuses about why you have sinned.

• James 5:16

As long as you are alive on this earth, you will have sin. If you should slip up, stop and confess your sin to God. Do not allow the enemy to lie to you and cause shame. God does not shame, He merely reveals, so you can confess and start over. He will strengthen you.

Resources Referenced:

• 90 Days to WholenessTM coloring devotional workbook on Amazon
• 90 Days to WholenessTM for FREE on YouVersion
• Enroll in SheRecovery Virtual Meetings
• LifeRecovery Bible
• SheRecovery Facebook Group

Support the show

Thank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast, a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode including links to all of the resources mentioned in it and submit listener feedback. You can also show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com at buymeacoffee.com/sherecovery. Thank you for your support and I hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast.
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In S2E4 of the SheRecovery Podcast, you'll hear from Rachel Joy Welcher. In this interview, Rachel discusses the impact purity culture has had on the generation that grew up in it. Many of the messages of purity culture offered promises of a kind of life that real life couldn't keep, nor does the Bible actually offer. If you grew up in purity culture and have found that life doesn't match the narrative, you don't want to miss this candid interview full of truth and redemption.
Rachel is a columnist and editor at Fathom magazine. She is the author of two books of poetry: Blue Tarp and Two Funerals, Then Easter and her most recent book Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality. Her writing has also appeared in Fathom magazine, The Gospel Coalition, Mere Orthodoxy, Relevant, and The Englewood Review of Books. She lives in Glenwood, Iowa, with her husband, Evan. You can learn more about her at RachelJWelcher.com.
Resources Referenced:

• Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality
• Making Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns
• Dating Done Right: Pursuing Relationships on Purpose

Thank you for listening to the SheRecovery Podcast - a resource of SheRecovery.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with those who you think will enjoy it too. And be sure to subscribe to never miss a new episode. Visit SheRecovery.com/podcast to access the listener notes for this episode as well as to access our Patreon page. You can show your support of the SheRecovery Podcast and SheRecovery.com by becoming a patron. Patrons receive exclusive content, recovery tools, and even SheRecovery merch that is not found anywhere else. Thank you for your support and we hope you will join us again next week for a new episode of the SheRecovery Podcast.

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